Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST,"
In the jail at Tower, Mimi, which recently
burned was a Finnish miner who was sumo
Gated. About $50 of his countrymen armed
themselves ana started out to Kill tue CON
| stable who had arrested the man. me oncer
! fed, and peace was restored with dlmculty.
THE exercises of the Salvation Army are
cassed as Shows" in Nevada City. Cal. The
| class fcatlon came about through the action
| of the army in charging a small adm IS on lee
| in order to keep out the hoodlums. W nefeupoh
| the authorizes at once required them to take
| out a license.
| 1T seems that lawyer is something OF
carpenter. He can file a bill, split hair.
| chop logic, dovetail an argument, make an
| entry, get up case. frame an indictments
impanel jury, put them In box, nan VII
| ness, hammer Judge, bore q court, cnlsel q
| client, and other like things.
MRS. LUCRETIA HARDGRovE was recently
found in hut near San Francisco completely
paralyzed and starving. She says that for
| the last six weeks sue has been living on
| toast and water, and charges that her sister,
| Mrs. Anderson, of South San Francisco, who
| is worth 100000. would not assist her.
| THERE is charming Arcadian village
called La Tour, situated near Privhs, in the
| Southern Department OF Ardeche which has
| become unnhabitable owing TO the number
| of crime. that have been committed therein
of late. The inhabitants have left their homes
IN body and migrated to less blood stained
| regions.
Fox HUNTERS near Camargo, ILL.,, recently
chased fox so closely that he took refuge in
| a hole in haystack A terrier was sent into
| the hole and he succeeded in sezing the fox by
| hind leg. One of the hunters then man
| aged to grab the terrier by a mind leg. and so
he pulled the terrier and the terrier pulled
the fox out.
ANATURAL CURIOSITY has been discovered
at Soloshurn, Switzerland, the centre of
large watch manufacturing district. II is the
neat OF a wagtail, built wholly of long spiral
steel shavings, without the least part o. Velse-
table or animal fibre used in Its construction
The nest has been preserved in the Museum
Of Natural History.
MRS. HUBER, of Brooklyn, has begun suit
for damages in the sum of 5000 against TWO
or three of her acquaintance, for injuries
alleged to have been received at their hands.
The injuries consist Of shocks to her nerves
upon receipt of several gar valentines.
which she has reason to believe were sent by
the defendants. They, however, deny the ac
cusatlon.
A FINE METEOR was seen by several Phila-
delphians on last Monday just after midnight.
1t was described as being about half the size
of the full moon when at its height, As clear
as electric light, and with Irain which
shaded from light pink at the head 10 pur-
pie at the end. Tlere were numerous sparks
similar to those which would fall from u Ro-
man candle.
A BOY playing in the street in Paris q few
days ago, observed an elegantly dressed man
pour some liquid into a letter-boX, then put
in after it a lighted match and run away.
The boy gave The alarm but a mum Der of let
terra and post cards in the box we're already
destroyed. IL is supposed that the culprit
wished TO get rid of some compromising cor
respOndence.
ST. LOUIS is the greatest strawberry
market in the word, and it daily receives
during the season tons and tons of the berries
from Arkansas and lower Missouri. Special
cars are slde-tracked at all lmpoT TAM sta
tons and in the evening the farmers come
from miles around with great baskets of
tempting berries to be consigned to the st.
Louis dealers.
IT is said that under the Cathedral Of Maui
chester, Eng, are huge vaults which are
rented for great revenue to dealers as liquor
vaults. The late Sir Edward sullivan sug
gested to Gladstone the idea of ''disestablish-
ment of the liquor traffic as we'll rs the
church, and turning its vast revenues into
channels of education and relief Of taxation
and benevolence."
AN express train became tangled up in a
mass of telephone lines while going through
Orange N. j.. on Tuesday, three big poles
full of wires having been precipitated upon
the tracks by the weight of snow. They
wound themselves around the engine, tore on
the headlight, smoke stack, whistle and bell
and all the ornamental work, and when the
| tram stopped finally there was over 40, 600
| feet OF wire about the engine and cars.
A MISSOURI FARMER, driving home at
| night from st. Louis, dropped a coat ana
bag of oats from his wagon without knowing
! it. His dog knew it, though, and lying down
by them watched them for three days despite
all efforts to coax or drive him away. At the
end of that time the farmer came back He
said that he mad been wondering what had
| become OF his coat, bag and dog, and hearing
OF dog acting strangely on the road, came
| to see If IL was his.
Dr.. TALMAGE has found simple solution
for the complications with Canada. He saws
this great continent Will soon be under one
| government. and that this will be brought
| about by he United States proposing mar
| rage to Canada. And when Uncle sam"
says the doctor, "ohers his hand and heart to
Mis- Canada, Canada will blush and look
| down, amt, thinking of her alleg ance across
| The sea. viii SAY. Ike the shy maiden that she
| is: Ask mother"
MRS. RosALINE GENEvIEvE Won PHUL.
who recently died at st. Louis, was born in
Lexington. KY, June %, 1897. and ''enioyed
the Distinction says the New Orleans Times
Democrat, "of having lived under the Span
ism. French and American governments and
during the administration OF every President
OF the United state. She had fifteen chill
dren, eight of whom survive, the eldest. Mr..
Thomas n. Taylor, of st. Louis, being IS wears
of age. Her descendants are about 100 in
number.
JUST outside of Vermont village ND on the
hillside lives. if he is still living, an elderly
farmer Of quiet life and moderate fortune ac-
cemuiated by hard toll. On Sunday he ia the
orthodox Deacon, and he raised sons and
daughters and looked after their education
in the village. The o dest son is now Plesi
dent OF one of the Pacific railroads, comprIs
ing about 1000 miles of road, and has climbed
10 the place by his own eXertions. Yet we
hear that the poor man has no chance in this
country.
IN the East it would he set down as Pa
cltc coast fabrication. but it is fact that the
horses in the mountain camps OF California
are in winter provided Wi b snowshoes. The
Nevada City Transcript thus describes thes',
shoes: TO make one Of the shoes you FIRST
lake piece of rubber betting about u inches
IN diameter. Faslcn TO one side OF IL a At oil
plate so perforated that the calss of The
h rse's usual shoe will fit it. Then by a
clamp fasten one of those with the rubber
side down securely to each foot Of the ami
NAL"
AN Albuquerque New Mexicol editor. who
expected gang of lynchGrs to come for him